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“The best way to fail at inventing something is by making it somebody’s part-time job.”
― Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon
― Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon
“In the 2016 shareholder letter, even though he wasn’t explicitly talking about two-pizza teams, Jeff suggested that “most decisions should probably be made with somewhere around 70% of the information you wish you had. If you wait for 90%, in most cases, you’re probably being slow. Plus, either way, you need to be good at quickly recognizing and correcting bad decisions. If you’re good at course correcting, being wrong may be less costly than you think, whereas being slow is going to be expensive for sure.â€�5”
― Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon
― Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon
“When you encounter a problem, the probability you’re actually looking at the actual root cause of the problem in the initial 24 hours is pretty close to zero, because it turns out that behind every issue there’s a very interesting story.â€� In the end, if you stick with identifying the true root causes of variation and eliminating them, you’ll have a predictable, in-control process that you can optimize.”
― Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon
― Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon